Murfreesboro, Tennessee · Rutherford County

Driveway Gates Murfreesboro TN - Swing & Slide Gates

A driveway gate is the heaviest moving thing on most properties, and the first thing a visitor touches. It has to swing or roll without dragging, close square, and keep doing that through years of wet winters and summer heat. Most of that comes down to decisions made before the gate is built: the style, the posts, and where the gate sits on the drive.

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Galvanized double swing gate across a gravel country drive with farmhouse beyond, Murfreesboro, TN

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Swing Gate or Slide Gate?

Single bronze steel swing gate open on a suburban driveway, Murfreesboro, TN

Single and Double Swing Gates

Swing gates are the classic look and the simplest hardware. They need clear, fairly level ground across the whole arc they sweep. A drive that climbs toward the house can stop an inward-swinging gate halfway open. Double leaves split a wide opening into two lighter gates that sag less.

Steel-frame wood slide gate on a ground track across a wooded uphill drive, Murfreesboro, TN

Slide (Rolling) Gates

A slide gate rolls sideways along the fence line, so it works on sloped drives and short setbacks where a swing gate can't open. It needs a clear run beside the opening at least as long as the gate. HomeGuide's chain link guide lists rolling gates for openings of 12 to 20 feet.

Gate Materials

HomeGuide's national installed prices for manual gates by material:

Chain link: $180 to $1,000
Vinyl: $200 to $1,100
Wood: $300 to $4,000
Aluminum: $400 to $4,500
Steel: $500 to $4,500
Wrought iron: $600 to $5,000

Overall, HomeGuide puts a manual driveway gate at $300 to $1,200 installed and an automatic one at $1,900 to $6,000. Width moves the price too. Its electric gate guide lists the gate alone, before an opener or installation, at $500 to $1,500 for 10 feet and $2,500 to $6,000 for 18 feet. For a formal entrance, see wrought iron and steel styles.

Wood, ornamental iron and galvanized pipe gate samples against a barn wall, Murfreesboro, TN

Posts, Placement and Planning Ahead

Posts sized to the gate. Gate posts carry the whole leaf hanging off one side. They're larger than fence posts and set deeper in concrete. HomeGuide notes standalone gate jobs often cost 30 to 50 percent more in labor than a gate added to a fence project, mostly because of that post work.
Set back from the road. In unincorporated Rutherford County, fences and gates have to stay out of the road right-of-way, and the ordinance bans anything that blocks drivers' sight lines at a driveway. We set the gate far enough back that a car can pull fully off the road while it opens.
Build it to automate later. If you might add an opener someday, the gate should be built for it now. Automatic vehicular gates are covered by ASTM F2200, and retrofitting a gate that wasn't built to it can mean rebuilding it. See automatic gate openers.
Call 811 first. Gate posts and any wiring trench need Tennessee 811 locates before digging.

Already have a gate that drags or won't latch? Go to gate repair.

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Tell us the width of the opening, the slope of the drive, the look you want and whether it will be automated now or later. We'll measure and send a quote with the gate, posts, hardware and any opener on separate lines. Call (629) 334-2020 anytime or use the quote form.

Steel-frame cedar double driveway gate at a wooded lot in autumn

White four-board double gate opening onto an oak-lined farm lane

Dark gray horizontal-slat aluminum driveway gate at a modern home

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